Solutions Architect - Remote - Octopus by RTG

About the role

Requirements

• - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• - 8+ years in software engineering, with at least 3 years in an architecture role on large, multi-service systems
• - A background of building software yourself, with enough current depth to review code and design credibly.
• - Strong command of distributed system design: microservices, service boundaries, API design and versioning, and event-driven architecture.
• - Deep experience with a major backend ecosystem — Java and Spring Boot, or an equivalent enterprise platform.
• - Strong data architecture skills: relational modelling, persistence strategy, transactional integrity and consistency trade-offs across services.
• - Solid grasp of security architecture — identity and access management, OAuth2 / OpenID Connect, authorization models, encryption and secrets management.
• - Experience designing for cloud-native or containerized deployment (Kubernetes or OpenShift) and CI/CD delivery.
• - Proven ability to produce clear architecture documentation and diagrams that engineers can actually build from.
• - Excellent stakeholder communication — able to hold a technical position under challenge and explain it in plain language to a non-technical audience.
• - Excellent verbal and written English communication skills..
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Responsibilities

• - Own the end-to-end solution architecture for assigned platforms and workstreams, across application, data, integration, security and deployment concerns.
• - Translate business and regulatory requirements into architectural decisions, and make the trade-offs explicit.
• - Produce and maintain formal architecture deliverables: architecture vision, high-level design, integration designs, and decision records.
• - Define service boundaries, API contracts, data ownership and event models across a distributed system.
• - Design integration with external and third-party systems, and define the adapter and anti-corruption patterns that keep the core insulated from them.
• - Define the non-functional posture — scalability, availability, performance, resilience, observability — and ensure the design actually meets it.
• - Embed security and compliance requirements into the architecture rather than bolting them on, working closely with security and risk stakeholders.
• - Lead design reviews, guide engineering leads, and govern that implementation stays true to the agreed architecture.
• - Evaluate technologies and vendors, and produce clear, evidence-based recommendations.
• - Identify and articulate architectural risks, assumptions, dependencies and open decisions, and drive them to closure.
• - Support estimation, technical scoping and delivery planning alongside product and delivery leadership.

Skills

• Distributed system design
• Microservices
• API design and versioning
• Event-driven architecture
• Java
• Spring Boot
• Relational data modelling
• Persistence strategy
• Transactional integrity
• Security architecture
• OAuth2 / OpenID Connect
• Identity and access management
• Encryption and secrets management
• Cloud-native / containerized deployment
• Kubernetes or OpenShift
• CI/CD